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Encounters With Strangers: Feminism and Disability - Softcover

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Synopsis

Feminism has transformed countless aspects of women's lives, from employment and parenting to domestic violence and reproductive rights. Yet at the heart of these contributions lies an enormous oversight: the failure to incorporate and address the interests and experiences of disabled women. The result has been a limited perspective that undermines feminism's much-needed contribution to essential debates--on motherhood, abortion, equal rights, and much more. Now, in this groundbreaking book, leading activists explore the ways feminism can and must acknowledge disabled women for the benefit of all. Revealing the ways in which disabled women have been rendered nearly invisible, it shatters received feminist wisdom on a wide range of core issues. Offering cogent evidence of the many ways in which disabled women's experiences would revitalize feminism today, Encounters with Strangers makes an invaluable contribution to a more inclusive understanding of disability rights, outlining how new and vital alliances may be achieved.

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